Every year, Japan's national policy agency publishes figures listing the precise number of yakuza gangs and gangsters.

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For example, in March 2012, the Secretary of State issued Policy Guidance on Promoting Gender Equality to Achieve our National Security and Foreign Policy Objectives, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator released Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy.

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And they question whether the head of a national research-funding agency, charged with implementing government policy, can be seen to provide truly independent advice.

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